• Hynek Boril, Ph.D.


      Research Associate

      Center for Robust Speech Systems (CRSS)

      Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

      The University of Texas at Dallas

Selected Publications


Journal Articles

Hansen, J. H. L., Ruzanski, E., Boril, H., Meyerhoff, J. (2009): “Stress Assessment in Speech using TEO Based Hybrid Classification and Tracking Schemes: A Case Study,” Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. [bib]

Boril, H., Hansen, J. H. L. (2010). “Unsupervised Equalization of Lombard Effect for Speech Recognition in Noisy Adverse Environments,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, accepted for publication, in press. [pdf] [cited] [bib]

Boril, H. and Fousek, P. (2007). “Influence of different speech representations and HMM training strategies on ASR performance,” Acta Polytechnica, Journal on Advanced Engineering 46, 32-35. [pdf] [bib]

Conference/Workshop Proceedings

Boril, H., Hansen, J. H. L., et al. (2010). “A Longitudinal Study of Infant Speech Production Parameters,” will be submitted to Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction WOCCI'10. [bib]

Amuda, S., Boril, H., Sangwan, A., Hansen, J. H. L. (2010). “Limited Resource Speech Recognition for Nigerian English,” accepted to IEEE ICASSP'10 (Dallas, TX). [bib]

Mehrabani, M., Boril, H., Hansen, J. H. L. (2010). “Dialect Distance Assessment Method Based on Comparison of Pitch Pattern Statistical Models,” accepted to IEEE ICASSP'10 (Dallas, TX). [bib]

Kleinschmidt, T., Boyraz, P., Boril, H., Sridharan, S., Hansen, J. H. L. (2009). “Assessment of Speech Dialog Systems using Multi-Modal Cognitive Load Analysis and Driving Performance Metrics,” IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety ICVES`09, 167-172 (Pune, India). [pdf] [bib]

Boril, H., Hansen, J. H. L. (2009). “Reduced Complexity Equalization of Lombard Effect for Speech Recognition in Noisy Adverse Environments,” in Proc. of Interspeech'09 (Brighton, UK). [pdf] [bib]

Boril, H., Boyraz, P., Hansen, J. H. L. (2009). “Towards Multi-Modal Driver's Stress Detection,” in Proc. of 4th Biennial Workshop on DSP for In-Vehicle Systems and Safety (Dallas, Texas). [pdf] [bib]

Boril, H., Krishnamurthy, N., Hansen, J. H. L. (2009). “Online Noise and Lombard Effect Compensation for In-Vehicle Automatic Speech Recognition,” in Proc. of 4th Biennial Workshop on DSP for In-Vehicle Systems and Safety (Dallas, Texas). [pdf] [bib]

Boril, H., Hansen, J. H. L. (2009). “Unsupervised equalization of Lombard effect for speech recognition in noisy adverse environment,” in Proc. of IEEE ICASSP'09, 3937-3940 (Taipei, Taiwan). [pdf] [bib]

Boril, H., Fousek, P., and Höge, H. (2007). “Two-stage system for robust neutral/Lombard speech recognition”, in Proc. of Interspeech'07, 1074-1077 (Antwerp, Belgium). [pdf] [cited] [bib]

Boril, H., Boril, T., and Pollák, P. (2006). “Methodology of Lombard speech database acquisition: Experiences with CLSD”, in Proc. of LREC 2006 - 5th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 1644-1647 (Genova, Italy). [pdf] [cited] [bib]

Boril, H., Fousek, P., and Pollák, P. (2006). “Data-driven design of front-end filter bank for Lombard speech recognition”, in Proc. of ICSLP'06, 381-384 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). [pdf] [cited] [bib]

Boril, H., Fousek, P., Sündermann, D., Cerva, P., and Zdansky, J. (2006). “Lombard speech recognition: A comparative study”, in Proc. 16th Czech-German Workshop on Speech Processing, 141-148 (Prague, Czech Republic). [pdf] [cited] [bib]

Boril, H. (2005). “Automatic Reconstruction of Utterance Boundaries Time Marks in Speech Database Re-grabbed from DAT Recorder.” In Digital Technologies 2005, 2005, vol. 1, 13-16 (Zilina, Slovakia). [pdf] [bib]

Boril, H. and Pollák, P. (2005). “Comparison of three Czech speech databases from the standpoint of Lombard effect appearance”, in ASIDE 2005, COST278 Final Workshop and ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop (Aalborg, Denmark). [pdf] [bib]

Boril, H. and Pollák, P. (2005). “Design and collection of Czech Lombard Speech Database”, in Proc. of Interspeech'05, 1577-1580 (Lisboa, Portugal). [pdf] [cited] [bib]

Boril, H. and Pollák, P. (2004). “Direct time domain fundamental frequency estimation of speech in noisy conditions”, in Proc. EUSIPCO 2004, volume 1, 1003 - 1006 (Vienna, Austria). [pdf] [cited] [bib]

Lectures/Abstracts/Reports

Boril, H., Kleinschmidt, T., Boyraz, P., Hansen, J. H. L. (2010). “Impact of Cognitive Load and Frustration on Drivers' Speech,” Accepted to the 159th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and NOISE-CON 2010 (Baltimore, Maryland). [bib]

Boril, H. (2008). “Attributes and Recognition of Lombard Speech,” Invited Lecture, Sound to Sense (S2S) Workshop - Speech in Adverse Conditions (Prague, Czech Republic). [ppt] [bib]

Boril, H. (2007). “Normalization of Lombard effect”, Research Report No. R07-2, 52 pages, Czech Technical University in Prague & Siemens Corporate Technology (Munich, Germany). [bib]

Boril, H. (2006). “Czech Lombard Speech Database (CLSD`05)”, Technical Report No. R07-1, 24 pages, Czech Technical University in Prague & Siemens Corporate Technology (Munich, Germany). [pdf] [bib]

Boril, H. and Pollák, P. (2006). “Pitch-marking Based on the DFE Algorithm.” Lecture, 6th ECESS and TC-STAR WP3 Meeting (Berlin, Germany). [pdf] [bib]

Theses

Boril, H. (2008). “Robust speech recogniton: Analysis and equalization of Lombard effect in Czech corpora,” Ph.D. dissertation, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic. [pdf] [cited] [bib]

Boril, H. (2003). “Guitar MIDI converter”, Master's thesis, Czech Technical University in Prague, in Czech. [pdf] [bib]

Other Publications


Proceedings

Boril, H. (2006). “Design of Speech Feedback; Comparison of Features for Lombard speech recognition,” Analysis and Processing of Speech and Bilogical Signals, CTU Publishing House, Prague, pp. 24-30, in Czech.

Boril, H., Fousek, P. (2006). “Influence of Different Speech Representations and HMM Training Strategies on ASR Performance,” In Proc. Intl. Student Conf. POSTER 2006, Prague.

Boril, H. and Pollák, P. (2005). “Analysis of Lombard Effect in Several Czech Databases,” In Proceedings of the Joint 16th Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing ESSP 2005 and 15th Czech-German Workshop on Speech Processing. vol. 1, pp. 253-259, Prague.

Boril, H., Boril, T., and Pollák, P. (2005). “Design of Lombard Effect Speech Database,” In Proceedings of Proc. RADIOELEKTRONIKA 2005, pp. 144-147, Brno, Czech Republic.

Boril, H. (2004). “Recognition of Speech under Lombard Effect,” In Proc. 14th Czech-German Workshop on Speech Processing, pp. 110-113, Prague 2004. [cited]

Boril, H. (2004). “Parameter Changes and Recognition of Speech under Stress,” Survey, Signal Analysis and Processing V, CTU Publishing House, Prague, pp. 54-65, in Czech.

Boril, H. (2003). “Direct Time Fundamental Frequency Estimation,” In Proc. Polish-Hungarian-Czech Workshop on Circuit Theory, Signal Processing and Applications, pp. 59-64, Prague.

Boril, H. (2003). “Pitch Detector for Guitar MIDI Converter,” In Proc. Intl. Student Conf. POSTER 2003, Prague.

Last Updated 12.15. 2009